Made in America - Bill Bryson Reviews

Bill Bryson has an amazing talent ? he can write about the most boring, dry and deadly dull topic yet make it seem fascinating. Although he is most well known for his travel books such as Notes From A Small Island and Neither Here Nor There, he has also written several books on other subjects. ...

Bill Bryson is probably best known in this country for his travel writings, especially "Notes From a Small Island" (though in my view "The Lost Continent" is still to be bettered). But, somewhat less known to most people, he is also an accomplished linguist, and "Made In America" is an excellent advertisement for his ...

All my life I went to American Schools and I got a very thorough American education: full of "The Star Spangled Banner", the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag and of course lots of American history. It never was my favorite subject, but then again, Bill Bryson certainly wasn't my teacher. When I read this book it took me back ...

When Bill Bryson got hold of this subject he sure went to town! I suppose to a certain extent this could be considered as something of a follow up to Mother Tongue, the history of the development of the English language, charting as it does the development of American version of the language. This book though delves deep into the spawning of ...